freebsd and dim of the yard!

I installed FreeBSD today with dim: A pure-Python window manager for the X window system. I like the minimalism of them both as well as being able to tag groups of windows. Below are my notes.

1. Did a default FreeBSD install
2. Updated to the latest ports
3. Install only the packages you need:
   

   pkg_add -r xorg xorg-fonts urwfonts freetype py27-xpyb 
              libXfontcache xdm portupgrade git bash emacs 
              chromium 
   

4. Configure X
5. Clone dim from github
6. Configure a .xession:
   

   xset m 12/4/8
   xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
   xsetroot -solid steelblue
   xterm &
   exec /usr/local/src/dim/bin/dim
   

Make sure you have the latest FreeBSD port of xpyb. The port tree upgrade above should cover you but if you do not have at least 1.3.1 try:

portsnap fetch
portsnap extract
portsnap update
pkg_install -r portupgrade
portupgrade -R py27-xpyb